Coping Skills Therapy for Managing Chronic and Terminal Illness

This practical, hands-on book offers a broad range of skills to overcome the problems medical clients face with disease onset. The author has expanded his Cognitive Coping Therapy model (CCT) of care into the medical arena, and identifies 3 distinct phases in the treatment protocol: Crisis Consolidation, and Normalization. Each phases constitues a distinctive set of tasks and each task a set of coping skills. This book details how to implement these skills, with sample case illustrations throughout.

The manual is a practical guide that identifies treatment issues and problems that can arise when implementing key coping skills. It provides therapists with assessment instruments and there are more than 35 patient handouts available in pdf form that can be downloaded directly from our website. This workbook and accompanying patient handouts are designed to stand alone, or supplement the author’s text.

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Kenneth Sharoff, PhD, has been practicing psychotherapy for thirty years and is currently in private practice in the Phoenix, Maryland, area. He received his BA from the University of Colorado, his MA from the University of Denver, and his PhD from the University of Maryland. He is the originator of cognitive coping therapy, reviewed as “”the most important contribution in the development and maturing of cognitive behavior therapy in the past twenty years.”” He is the author of Cognitive Coping Therapy and lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.